The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-04-13

~ WHY tatOD VIII CiNNlsttltIN Ct1l IL. |
square of WITH the grocery house
and return home With n kit of
mackerel and a copper toed pair
of shoes for the baby. Thus the
years work is completed, the cotton
cycle has passed, has closed the old
year and begins the new one new
with the same arduous task. How
then can We live? some will doubt
less say. Now we don't purpose to
argue the minute points Ofthis case,
but we Il say so long as your
smoke house is in Tennessee and
Kentucky and your granary in the
West, YOU cannot live. First pre-
pare your table ut home, then with
n moderate supply of the "long lint"
rig yourself ont for Christmas.
Touch not, handle not, taste not
anything that produced, distilled
licve, Mr.. Editor, had we pracficed
what we are preaching, we would
have been happily settled twenty
years ago with some fair damScu,
|. but as it is we are too poor now TO
rent Il dog cabin in the lane" with
4 dirt floor.
And artcrall this agricultural cX-
| element, what more or what
| can we say about our Rail Road. 1T
il not completed, but will be soon,
they tell us We arc still living i'll
hope, but alas! we may die in dcs-
pair. Our mothers always told rs
that "the watched pot never boils".
Yes it is surveyed, yes, they arc
grading it, YES, VIC can almost sec
the dirt flying from our hills, almost
hear the rumbling sound of the cv-
cr-wclccmcd midnight traveller.
Yes, it is all but completed, but re-
member there's many II slip twiXt
the cup ami the lip" When the
welcomed visitor putting
through our town with his cNton-
ded tail, we will build q calaboose
and elect n town council. Then fare
we'll shattered Charleston, farewell
world renowned Columbia, fare
we'll busy Grcenville, farewell elias
ic Spartanburg, we L destined to
be the metropolis of the Piedmont
belt, ofthe Atlantic coast and ofthc
Gulf plain. Our people, / am glad
to say, are in high hopes Of its COM
plctiOn, and thus far we can Very
tr%uthfully say it has materially
damaged rs in only ono respect and
that is it has given our people the
"hin hcad.n They arc now begin
ming to pass en- Dit with an insiGniii-
cant nod, but we arc glad to say
such as On Dit don't care and ii
takes such is On Dit to keep earth
~ affairs moving tremendously.
I , ,,-n ~ DntSnlntn,
| whenever it becomes necessary We
will call in tho nolghhOr black
smiths and have their heads ban
dcd. Our town is not vet very
large, but perhaps there is i'll Il
midst some youth to fortune and TO
fame unknown that VIII in after
years provo to be RomuluS, and will
build another scvcn-hillcd art cen
tire on some of Saluda'S barren
banks, perhaps VIC are the people
to rQar another wOrld-rcnoWMc%
Coliseum, perhaps some old gandcr
is still living to perform his noble
mission. Yes we are gradually in
crcaSing not only in population but
commercially, financially morally
and intellectually. Our school is in
prosperous condition. 1t has just
entered upon new era. The pub
lie term began last Monday and the
beautiful and accomplished Miss
Sudie Carter was selected to fill the
assistants chair. Oh how We would
like 10 drink of the Sota'S immortal
fountain and become once moro a
SchooUl-bOy. How wc would baSk
under the radiant smiles! How soon